Attraction Quotes

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own. (Henry Ward Beecher)
Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money. View quote
J. Edgar Hoover
I believe very strongly that when it comes to desire, when it comes to attraction, that things are never black and white, things are very much shades of grey. View quote
Brian Molko
All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence. View quote
William Blake
There is much of economic theory which is pursued for no better reason than its intellectual attraction; it is a good game. We have no reason to be ashamed of that, since the same would hold for many branches of pure mathematics. View quote
John Hicks
I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract. View quote
Gustave Moreau
Most SF is about madness, or what is currently ruled to be madness; this is part of its attraction - it's always playing with how much the human mind can encompass. View quote
Brian Aldiss
Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world. View quote
Jane Austen
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold! View quote
Aristophanes
The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like that of the circus for the crowd. There is always the hope that something dangerous may happen. (Claude Debussy)
My attraction had been immediate and profound. And it had nothing to do with the way he looked. My attraction was to what resided between his lines. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
Remember, attraction is only one part of a relationship. Loyalty, commitment, responsibility and maturity make up the rest. View quote
Ruth Westheimer
Barriers tend to intensify romance. It's called the 'Romeo and Juliet effect.' I call it 'frustration attraction.' View quote
Helen Fisher
The best thing I have is the knife from Fatal Attraction. I hung it in my kitchen. It's my way of saying, Don't mess with me. View quote
Glenn Close
I suspect the secret of personal attraction is locked up in our unique imperfections, flaws and frailties. View quote
Hugh Mackay
Yes, the companionship is amazing. You know, you can get that physical attraction that happens is great, but then there's an awful lot of time and the rest of the day that you have to fill. View quote
Vince Gill
Wonder has no opposite; it springs up already doubled in itself, compounded of dread and desire at once, attraction and recoil, producing a thrill, the shudder of pleasure and of fear. View quote
Marina Warner
Dominion by land or sea will appear equally destitute of attraction, when it comes to be generally understood, that all its advantages rest with the rulers, and that the subjects at large derive no benefit whatever. View quote
Jean-Baptiste Say
The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary. View quote
Italo Calvino
God reveals Himself to a devotee who feels drawn to Him by the combined force of these three attractions: the attraction of worldly possessions for the worldly man, the child's attraction for its mother, and the husband's attraction for the chaste wife. If one feels drawn to Him by the combined force of these three attractions, then through it one can attain Him. (Ramakrishna)
There has to be chemistry in a duet, but if you go beyond the point of friendship and attraction, you lose something. View quote
Kenny Rogers
Progress is the attraction that moves humanity. View quote
Marcus Garvey
Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others. View quote
Oscar Wilde
That's the attraction of the conference circuit: it's a way of converting work into play, combining professionalism with tourism, and all at someone else's expense. Write a paper and see the world! I'm Jane Austen - fly me! View quote
David Lodge